Outlaws of the Marsh, Vol. 1-4
China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat...
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China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. Within this framework we find intrigue, adventure, murder, warfare, romance ... in a connected series of fascinating individual tales, told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9787119016627 (7119016628)
ASIN: 7119016628
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
Pages no: 2149
Edition language: English
What I said when I started this was: "Maybe right out of college shouldn't be the time to jump into a long 14th century epic, but it seems like a good book to come back to now and then in the background while I read faster things too."Well, I may have been a bit optimistic. While I enjoyed what I re...